This lesson is all about shortcuts! First, let’s start with the vowel shortcuts.
Up to now, you’ve been writing the “ee” sound like ᛁᛡ.
Another way to write the ᛁᛡ sound is with the rune ᛇ.
peace
easy peasy
Imagine that you combined ᛁ and ᛡ together. You take the two little sticks from the center part ᛡ and attach them on the ends of ᛁ to get ᛇ.
sleaze
Another way to write the ᛁᛁ sound is with the rune ᛠ.
near
Imagine if you combined ᛁ and ᛁ together. You just lay one on top of the other and boom.
ear
One thing I didn’t mention before about this phoneme is that it is “varisyllabic”. This means that in some contexts it can be 1 syllable while in others it can be 2.
career
Korea
leer
Leah
here / hear
sincere
Take your time with these. Sound them out slowly.
idealize
brigadier
Another way to write the ᚫᚫ sound is with the rune ᚪ.
start
spa
Isn’t that nice?! Now let’s move on to shortcuts for some consonant combinations!
The rune for the sound in PAST and STOP is ᛥ.
It is a shortcut for writing ᛋᛏ.
start
post
You would not use this rune if you have the S and T sounds split across two syllables like “pastime”.
The rune for the sound in QUICK and QUEEN is ᛢ.
It is a shortcut for ᚳᚹ or ᛣᚹ.
queen bee
quickly
It’s worth noting that all of these shortcuts are optional. I would imagine some scenarios such as a crossword puzzle where it would benefit us to avoid using shortcut runes.